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« on: February 27, 2018, 01:06:00 PM »
Personally I've kinda got mixed feelings on the guy.
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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2018, 01:51:57 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2018, 04:38:30 PM »
Very unlikable, but I agree with him on certain issues.
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« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2018, 04:39:16 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2018, 04:58:38 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2018, 07:00:10 PM »
FF all the mother f!cking way
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« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2018, 07:13:57 PM »
Mixed, HP on balance. 
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2018, 10:52:53 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2018, 03:22:33 AM »
New Atheist neocon.  HP.
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« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2018, 12:24:20 PM »
HP
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« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2018, 12:55:34 PM »
Who?

Oh, Peter's brother.
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« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2018, 01:54:12 PM »

that's so kick ass tho.

I like Hitchens, he wasn't going to let someone tell him what to do or let someone else think for him. Respect.
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« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2018, 01:56:29 PM »
Has a lot of FF qualities, but was very mistaken about Christianity.  FF on balance.  I like his brother better though.
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« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2018, 01:58:32 PM »
Quote from: Filuwaúrdjan on March 25, 2015, 12:06:09 PM
Quote from: Sibboleth on February 14, 2011, 11:20:11 AM
An extremely skilled polemicist. But that's more or less all he is. He's not as clever, profound or intellectually interesting as he likes to think. Far too frequently (and on a bewildering range of subjects) he has taken the position of the bigot and the bully; anyone who has the temerity to hold a view opposed to Hitchens or (heaven forbid!) to actively disagree with him is at best an idiot and is usually attacked as being utterly malign. Of course that's a fairly common trait of those who passed through youthful Trotskyism of one kind or another, but that doesn't actually excuse that sort of behavior.

That said, he's vastly superior to his brother who has all of his faults (though they manifest themselves differently, of course) and a few more on top. And is basically an out-and-out fascist.

I will add that since his death it has become clear that he is mostly remembered as A Character rather than for anything that he actually wrote. I suspect that he will slowly fade from public consciousness, ala Arthur Koestler.
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« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2022, 01:02:43 AM »
« Edited: January 14, 2022, 01:41:14 AM by Everyone Needs Jesus Christ »
HP who I suspect might've hated Christians. His brother's better
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« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2022, 08:28:38 AM »
Tempting to see him as just another "I Chose Freedom" left wing apostate, but if you believe the story that his final (scrawled on paper) words were "Capitalism - Downfall"......
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« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2022, 08:32:25 AM »
HP for his foreign policy views alone.
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« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2022, 12:29:07 PM »
FF in most of his life and in the very end
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« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2022, 04:18:36 PM »
Champion of freedom of expression, knowledge, intellect, and science. His pro-Iraq War viewpoint notwithstanding, the man was one of the great influential thinkers of the 21th century, and it's depressing that Hitchens is not here to take down the curmudgeons in leadership in the years passing(Boris Johnson, Trump).
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